Kiss a Frog and Other Frog Myths!

In
fairy tales and many folklore stories, the frog is one of the main
creatures that appear. Whether the frog is being kissed to turn
into a prince or the frog’s eyes are being boiled in a pot and stirred
by a witch, there are many different frog myths that are constantly
floating around in all sorts of different stories.

By far, the most popular use of a frog in
a movie/book was the famous kissing a frog to become a prince.
While that myth is obviously not true, there is still that saying ‘You
need to kiss a lot of frogs to get to your prince’, meaning that you
may need to kiss a lot of duds in order to find the person that you are
supposed to be with.

Long ago in medieval Europe, the frog was
something to be attributed to the devil because of their use in many
witch spells. Frogs are definitely not the sign of the devil, they
are actually some of the most harmless creatures in the world and are
definitely should not be associated with Satan any longer.

Another misconception about frogs is the
fact that if you touch one, you will develop warts instantly.
Warts have now been proven to be caused by a human internal viral
infection, but way back when, toads and frogs were handled by
glove-wearing humans or not handled at all.

While frogs have gotten a bad reputation
a lot of the time, there are still quite a few countries and cities that
hold the frog up high. For instance, Egyptians take the frog as a
symbol of life and fertility since millions of them were born after the
inundation of the Nile. They had many different myths about there
being a frog-goddess named Heget (which means frog in Egyptian).
Heget was essentially a woman’s body with a frog’s head and this
goddess was highly-respected and sought after, even though she was just
a myth.

In China, the frog represents the lunar
yin. They have even created a frog spirit, Ch’ing-Wa Sheng,
which is associated with healing and good fortune, which is one of the
main reasons why you will see a lot of frog relics around businesses and
in homes.

So as you can plainly see, the frog has
definitely become somewhat of a symbol for many different things in many
different cultures. Whether there is a frog appearing in a
television show singing his heart out, or he is falling from the sky,
the frog is definitely a huge part of our children’s stories and a
great asset to a lot of our favorite movies.

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